Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Direct visualization of hydrogen absorption dynamics in individual palladium nanoparticles

  • Tarun C. Narayan,
  • Fariah Hayee,
  • Andrea Baldi,
  • Ai Leen Koh,
  • Robert Sinclair,
  • Jennifer A. Dionne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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It remains unclear why energy storage systems with nanoscale constituents are less susceptible to stress-induced damage than their bulk counterparts. Here, the authors probe in real time the intercalation-driven phase transitions of nanoscale palladium hydride, finding that these nanoparticles are able to fix crystallographic flaws as they form.